Berlin's dance of death, The peasant

Death to the peasant
Kere wedder bure du must al mede vnde dantzen na dyner olden sede dynes ackers arbeyt is al vorlaren den du bauen god haddest vterkaren legghe dal dat pluchschar unde prekel du mvst seker mede yn den partekel	Turn around peasant, you must already go along and dance after your old traditions. Your fieldwork is all lost that [work], which you have chosen above God. Lay there the ploughshare and the dibble. You must certainly join the party.
The peasant
Och ghude doet sume de godes doget spare dannen noch myner junghen ioghet unde ghef my ghummen dat reste tho ik gheve dy vorwar eine vette ko doch ik se wol du wult dar nicht na vraghen och help criste ed ghelt my hir den kraghen	Oh good Death [I] dawdle over God's goodness.(1) In spite of this spare my young youth and give me, goodman, the rest of it. I'll gladly give you a fat cow; yet, I see well, that you will not ask for it. Oh help Christ - here it´s a matter of my life.(2)

dawdle over God's goodness...: This sentence is less than clear. Low German "sume" corresponds to High German "säumen" — to hesitate or dawdle; "doget" means goodness or virtue.

Maybe it should have been "vorsume" = neglect?

a matter of my life . . .: Quite literally it's a matter of the neck / throat. In the old days, "Kraghe" meant throat. The word and is related to the English "craw" (crop of a bird).

We see the same in chapter 3 in the introduction of Des dodes dantz:

… Wo sik vele minschen to sterven beklagen,
Unde wo de dôt einen isliken gript bi dem kragen, …

… the way many people complain about dying,
and how Death grabs everyone by the throat, …

In modern German, "Kragen" has come to mean collar (after all the collar is located close to the throat) and "am Kragen kriegen" means to grab someone by the collar.

It's the same in Danish where "tage fat i kraven" also means to grab somebody by the collar (it's the same in modern Dutch). so you can easily imagine Death catching the peasant by the collar.